I’ll also be speaking with other Writer’s Digest editors at two bookstore events in September: one at Josepth-Beth (Cincinnati) on Sept. 20 (7p), and the other at Books & Co. (Dayton, OH) on Sept. 22 (6p).

New online seminar: Build Your Author Platform Through BloggingI’m teaching a brand-new seminar for Writer’s Digest on how to build visibility and reach to your target audience—whether you’re published or not—through a blog. This is a live session on Sept. 16, at 1p EDT. If you can’t make the live session, you can also buy the on-demand recording.

What you’ll learn:

How to develop strategic content for your blog that will benefit your career as an author

When and how to post your work-in-progress on your blog or site

When and how fiction writers should blog

What kinds of blogs attract the attention of editors and agents

5 ways to grow your blog traffic—and how to know when your blog has a visitor count worth talking about

The consistent habits and methods of successful bloggers

The essential metrics for analyzing your blog’s traffic, and how to improve your blog based on visitor data

On a more inspirational note, I’ve started an interview series on my personal website that’s focused on conversations between mothers and daughters. The first post is an interview with MY mother, talking about what life was like for her at my age. Click here to read “When Mom Was My Age.”